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Research profile · last verified 2026-08-01SwitchBot Roller Shade
Exactly which product this is[2]
- Model number
- Not established
- Generation
- Not established
- Region this page covers
- Not established
- Also sold or listed as
- Not established
“Not established” means we have not sourced that detail yet — not that the product has no model number, generation or regional variant. We publish the gap rather than filling it.
Compatibility
| Ecosystem | Support | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Home | WorksWorks with this ecosystem[2] | Reached only through the Hub 2, and SwitchBot ties this one to that hub by name: 'With SwitchBot Hub 2 (sold separately), Roller Shade supports Matter and can be integrated with Apple HomeKit.' A cheaper SwitchBot hub does not buy this cell. The claim rests on SwitchBot's word — no Apple document confirms what a bridged shade exposes in the Home app. |
| Amazon Alexa | WorksWorks with this ecosystem[2] | Named in both of SwitchBot's own surfaces for this product: the description's 'Compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri Shortcuts, and more' under a heading that reads 'SwitchBot Hub 2 required', and the specification table's third-party services line, which states 'SwitchBot Hub required'. Sourced to SwitchBot alone, and conditional on owning a hub. |
| Google Home | WorksWorks with this ecosystem[2] | Same two SwitchBot surfaces and the same hub condition — the specification table names 'Google Assistant' rather than Google Home, which is the voice service rather than the app. Sourced to SwitchBot alone. |
| SmartThings | WorksWorks with this ecosystem[2] | Named only in the specification table's third-party services line, not in the marketing description, and carrying the same 'SwitchBot Hub required' condition. Worth knowing where this one comes from: the same SmartThings wording also appears on this page inside a SwitchBot Curtain 3 recommendation block, and only the specification-table instance belongs to this product. |
| Home Assistant | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[4] | SwitchBot does not name Home Assistant for this product. The specification table's third-party services line enumerates Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri Shortcuts, IFTTT, SmartThings and Matter, and stops there; the description names no more. SwitchBot's site-wide navigation does carry a 'Works with Home Assistant' section, but that is a store-level menu covering the whole range rather than a claim about this shade, and treating it as one would be reading the header as a spec. Home Assistant publishes a SwitchBot integration of its own, and a Matter shade bridged by a Hub 2 is the kind of device Home Assistant's Matter support handles in general — but neither party has published anything specific to this product, so the cell stays unknown rather than being inferred from two adjacent facts. |
? Inconclusive means we researched that ecosystem and the evidence doesn’t settle it — the catch says why, and the sources are listed below. It is a statement about the available evidence, never a verdict on the product. A Setup Check researches your exact setup where the official sources don’t answer.
Needs before it works: Not for the shade itself, but yes for every ecosystem on the box. The motor is Bluetooth: SwitchBot's specification table records 'BLE >= 5.0 (LongRange)' with a range of 'Max. 80 m without obstacles', which is what the phone app, the remote and the wired controller use. Nothing beyond that works without a SwitchBot hub — the same table lists its third-party services as 'Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri Shorcuts, IFTTT, SmartThings, Matter (SwitchBot Hub required)', and the description repeats the condition as a heading: 'Matter and smart home integration (SwitchBot Hub 2 required)'. Which hub matters, too. SwitchBot states that 'With SwitchBot Hub 2 (sold separately), Roller Shade supports Matter and can be integrated with Apple HomeKit', so the Matter and Apple paths are tied to the Hub 2 specifically rather than to any SwitchBot hub.[2]
What it can do[2]
You can tell it to
- Open/close
- Position
It reports
None documented by the vendor
Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.
Subscription reality[2]
✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.
Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.
No subscription is referenced anywhere on SwitchBot's US store listing for this product, including its specification table and warranty section.
Maintenance reality[3]
- Batteries: 2 built-in 18650 lithium cells, 2600 mAh, charged at 5V DC 1A — expect roughly 8 months per set
- Works without the internet: Not established — we have not sourced this yet. It does not mean the product fails without the internet.
- SwitchBot rates the built-in pack at eight months per charge, and states the test conditions rather than leaving the number bare: 25 C ambient, a 1.85 m drop, a 4 kg product weight and one up-and-down cycle per day. An optional solar panel is sold for $29.99 to remove the recharging chore entirely. Operating noise is rated at 35 dB or less in Standard mode and 30 dB or less in QuietDrift mode, with a full open or close taking 30 seconds or less in Standard and up to 200 seconds in QuietDrift — the quiet mode is slow by design. Covers window widths from 22.8 to 72.8 inches across four sizes, and the fabric is replaceable, which SwitchBot frames as keeping the motor and swapping the cloth. Mounting inside the frame needs at least 7 cm of depth, or 9 cm to sit fully recessed; outside the frame SwitchBot advises going 10 cm wider than the window. Warranty is one year. Operating range 0-45 C and 10-95% RH; app support is Android 5.0+, iOS 11.0+ and watchOS 2.2+.
- Security updates: SwitchBot declares a security-update period for this model as a length rather than a date: "2 years of software update support, counted from launch — SwitchBot states the period as a rule but publishes an end date for only one product, which is not this one" (the document this comes from names no country, so which markets it legally covers is not stated). That is a floor measured from a starting point the manufacturer sets — a launch or a purchase — rather than a fixed end date, so it cannot be placed on a calendar here. We record the manufacturer's words rather than converting them into a date it did not give. This is a published commitment, not a gap in our research.[5]
The catch
The shade is Bluetooth, and Bluetooth is the whole story until a hub arrives. Out of the box it answers the app, the included remote and a wired controller, and that is a genuinely complete product for someone who wants a quiet motorised blind on a schedule. Every ecosystem printed on the box — Alexa, Google Assistant, SmartThings, IFTTT, Siri Shortcuts, Matter — carries the words 'SwitchBot Hub required' in SwitchBot's own specification table, and the Apple and Matter paths specifically require the Hub 2 rather than any SwitchBot hub. Budget for that hub or the smart half does not exist. The second thing to know is the trade inside the quiet: QuietDrift mode is rated at 30 dB or less, but a full open or close takes up to 200 seconds in that mode against 30 seconds in Standard, so the near-silence is bought with more than three minutes of travel. Third, this is a fixed-size product rather than a made-to-order one, which is what makes it cheap: four sizes cover 22.8 to 72.8 inches, and SwitchBot's guidance is to mount outside the frame and go 10 cm wider if gaps at the edges would bother you. Eight months per charge is the rated figure, and the $29.99 solar panel is the way out of the recharging chore.
Who it's for
Someone who wants a motorised shade at a fixed price without a configurator, a dealer visit or a measuring appointment, and whose window falls inside the 22.8 to 72.8 inch range one of the four sizes covers. It suits a household that already owns a SwitchBot hub, because the hub is what turns it from a good app-controlled blind into an ecosystem device. It is the wrong pick if the window is an unusual size or shape, if a bare Bluetooth blind with no hub purchase is the plan and voice control still matters, or if Home Assistant is the intended home — SwitchBot does not document this product for Home Assistant, and the catalogue does not fill that gap with an inference.
Sources & method
Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →
- [1] Home Assistant's SwitchBot integration is a BLUETOOTH integration — it states in its own words that "A SwitchBot Hub is not required for this integration" — and it names this device with control features, which is a usable control path under the ruled definition. Roller Shade features: open/close/pause, set position, get position, get battery level; the integration documents the position mapping ("<=20% Open, >20% Close"). · The same page's "Works with Home Assistant" section names "SwitchBot Roller Shade" among the devices SwitchBot has certified for Bluetooth. ⚠ SwitchBot's own product description (read 2026-08-09 via the .js structured endpoint) contains ZERO occurrences of "Bluetooth". — vendor-page research + third-party integration documentation, verified 2026-08-09Backs: Protocols
- [2] SwitchBot US store listing, SwitchBot Roller Shade — product description and specification table — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-01Backs: Product identity, Required hub or bridge, Apple Home compatibility, Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility, Capabilities, Subscription, Protocols
- [3] SwitchBot US store listing, SwitchBot Roller Shade — variant list, specification table, installation notes and warranty section — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-01Backs: Price, Market availability, Research status, Maintenance, Power source, Installation
- [4] SwitchBot US store listing, SwitchBot Roller Shade — the specification table's third-party services enumeration — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-01Backs: Home Assistant compatibility
- [5] SwitchBot's own Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (www.switch-bot.com/pages/switchbot-vulnerability-disclosure-policy), read in full 2026-08-20. The commitment, verbatim: "We will deliver an updated experience for you on a regular basis including updated security patches. The period of software update support is 2 years, see the table below for details." The table it points to contains exactly ONE row — "SwitchBot Floor Cleaning Robot S10 | 2023/10/16 | 2025/12/31" — under the headings "Product Name", "Launch Date" and "End date of software update support". The same policy publishes remediation targets rather than a support horizon: "critical and high-risk vulnerabilities will be fixed within three working days, high-risk vulnerabilities within 0.5 months, medium-risk vulnerabilities within one month, and low-risk vulnerabilities within four months", with reports to security@switch-bot.com. Rungs walked per method note 69: (a) no SwitchBot regulatory-declaration library (UK PSTI / EU CRA) could be located — a first-party search surfaced only per-product FCC "Safety and Compliance Information" articles, which carry no support period; (b) answered by this policy page; (c) the product's own page sits on `us.switch-bot.com`, a registered refusing host, and was not reachable this pass. — vendor policy-page research (BQ-192 security-support sweep, method note 69 rungs a–c), verified 2026-08-20Backs: Security-update support period
- [6] SwitchBot's own US store description for the Roller Shade, already cited on this record, states the dependency in a parenthesis: "Matter and smart home integration (SwitchBot Hub 2 required) — Compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri Shortcuts, and more. Supports percentage control for precise adjustments." The shade's own radio is Bluetooth; Home Assistant reaches it through its BLUETOOTH integration, which states "A SwitchBot Hub is not required for this integration" — a Bluetooth path, not a Matter one. — protocols-definition sweep (BQ-222 batch 1; ruling §1 of docs/decisions/2026-08-20-RULINGS-SITTING.md), verified 2026-08-20Backs: Protocols
- [7] SmartHomeWorkflow record maintenance (BQ-250 securitySupport.region backfill) — internal-review of the document this record already cites, verified 2026-08-27
Compatibility and lifecycle information reflects the last-verified date above and can change without notice (firmware updates, cloud-service changes, discontinuations). It is provided as-is, for information — verify with the manufacturer before purchasing. Spot an error? Tell us and we'll fix it. Full terms: Terms of Service.